They’ll be more economical now, because the many nights this season when as many as 12 players get minutes are going to be phased out, Nuggets coach Brian Shaw said.

“I am going to probably end up cutting the rotation down and not playing 10 or 11 guys if I don’t have to,” Shaw said. “There may be some shuffling in terms of the bench unit.”

Going into Wednesday night’s game against Philadelphia, every player except Quincy Miller averaged at least 11 minutes per game. Every player who has been available, for the most part this season, had played in at least 13 of the 30 games. But 11 players had played in at least 24 games this season.

Not anymore.

Shaw pledges to get down to the players giving him the most juice. He needs productive, reliable players on the court, and he’ll reward the ones who bring that nightly with the lion’s share of the minutes.

In addition, Shaw plans to increase minutes for point guard Ty Lawson and small forward Wilson Chandler. Lawson played 39 against the Miami Heat and Chandler played 41 in that game, and Shaw said he liked what he saw, adding that the duo “seemed to embrace that.”

“If they’re conditioned to play those kinds of minutes, then I think I’ll increase their minutes at those positions,” Shaw said, “which means the other guys won’t play or will play a lot less.”

Nuggets’ attendance steady.

Going into the game against Philadelphia, the Nuggets’ home attendance had not seen a precipitous drop from the season before, averaging 17,293 fans this season as opposed to 17,820 last season, when the team won a franchise-record 57 games. It’s a drop of a minuscule 527 fans per game and is in line historically with what the Nuggets traditionally average for home games.

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